Re: FN-FORUM: What's the best development platform for creating Web 2.0 business applications?

date posted 19th November 2007 10:32

I'm looking at this list of problems and it wouldn't encourage me to use PHP
to develop a huge site.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP#Criticism (or any other kind of site).

My preference would be for asp.net because it's what I do (but I doubt I'd
use asp.net Ajax as it's a bit of a dog, but nowhere as fast), or if I had
to use open source: Rails; despite what is said here about it. Rails just
because it's such a rational framework. Why don't they make Rails code
compile?, if they did, I probably would use it. No doubt PHP scales better
than Rails but there's an issue of how nice it is to use a rationally
designed framework; almost nothing could bring me to code in PHP; only death
threats would get me to code in Perl.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Wheatley" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: What's the best development platform for creating Web
2.0 business applications?


>
> On 16/11/2007 10:45, Richard Harrison wrote:
>>
>> Maybe I'm missing something but Rails looks excellent at building
>> something from scratch, but where there is an existing something (in one
>> case a well designed database) it seemed to me that I feel outside of
>> Rails.
>>
>> As I say maybe I don't get it, I'm not upto speed with Rails, and in many
>> ways I would be delighted to be proved wrong.
>>
>> --Richard
>>> Rails.
>>>
>>> Two reasons: It's the best development platform full stop and also
>>> because even the name Rails is redolent of Web 2.0 zeitgeist.
>>
>
> There are other MVC style frameworks available for other languages too,
> wikipedia has a nice list. CakePHP for instance is modelled on the
> concepts of ruby on rails.
>
> Martin
>
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